Driver Station installer bugs

[Jim.D]

I am having problems with the driver station installer. I have several laptops and two PSOC boards. On my personal laptop I use PSOC Creator and PSOC programmer. Installing the Driver station kills the comunication to the PSOC devices to both of these applications and the driver station can not access the PSOCs. If I reinstall the non First PSOC software I can program the PSOCs with the first hex file.

I also have a team laptop it only has the Driver staion software and not the PSOC programming apps. It can access both PSOC devices from the driver station.

We have a Classmate PC that has been flashed with the new image file (Win 7 and driver station 01/05/11. I'm not sure if it has only the driver station or if it also has the PSOC programming package. It can access one of our PSOC devices and not the other. I have tried reflashing the one that it can't read several time and also tried flashing some of the sample apps onto it. It seems to be working correctly.

Anyone have any ideas or does anyone have both the driver station and the PSOC programming suite installed and working together on the same PC. If you have the later which versions are you running ?

Thanks

Jim
Team 1983

[Jim.D]

After much waisted time I have a fix for the driver station installer problem expirenced by some. There is a problem between previously installed software from Cypress and the Driver station installer. Assuming that you have already installed
1) Labview plus the FRC utilities or just the FRC utilities
2) the FRC utilities update
3) the Driver Station update.

Try this
1) Uninstall all of the Cyress software including Programmer and Creator
2) Uninstall the complete driver Station package
3) Edit the system registry and remomve all references of cyminiprog3
4) Edit the system registry and remove hklm/software/cypress key
5) Restart computer and verify that cyminiprog3 service is not listed in service manager
6) Reinstall Driver Station update. This time all 3 sections should be listed for install (programmer , cypress files and Driver station)

7) Check PSOC by plugging it into USB and pressing the button. Light 2 will light if the PSOC has V2 of the firmware install. If you don't get light 2 Run the programmer app and load FRC_IO.V2.hex onto the device.

8) Start Driver Station. Driver station should now see PSOC device. If not verify that miniprog3 service did start (may need to start service manually in service manager window).

Hope this helps the next guy.

Jim
FRC-1983